Re: [fetchmail]fetchmail and email clients

Quoting from Eric S. Raymond's mail on Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 12:55:04PM -0500:
> I don't think so.  There are a couple reasons this strikes me as a bad idea.
>
> 1. It would be specific to IMAP.
Well, adding support for other protocols can then be added to the TODO
list...

> 2. It moves fetchmail towards being an email client.  Fetchmail is not 
> designed to be an email client; it's designed to be a protocol gateway.
Ok...

Sunil Shetye.